Five Star Fridays with Jenbiff
Welcome to 2013 everyone! We survived another holiday season...can you believe it? This month I figured in case you didn't get enough family drama of your own in, these movies will def give you your fill. East of Eden, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have many scenes filled with families screaming at each other. Sound like home? Excellent, I hope you enjoy watching other people's discontent with their own families!
East of Eden
(1955)
Starring: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris
Cal Trask is a very troubled young man. Having never met his
mother and constantly battling with his brother, Aron, for his fathers love and
affection, Cal
feels lost. His father is a successful farmer who tries to create a
refrigerator train car to ship vegetables. When this venture fails, his father
looses thousands of dollars; Cal
decides in order to win his father’s love he should try and get his money back
for him. Knowing that if the United States
were to enter the war (they were on the brink of WWI), the price of beans would
skyrocket, meaning Cal
could get the back money ten fold. At the same time Cal has found out that his mother is not
actually dead. He manages to talk to her and even to convince him to let him
borrow $5,000 for the bean investment. When Cal and Aron’s father’s birthday
comes Cal has
enough money to make up what he had lost, so Cal and Aron’s girlfriend Abra
decide to throw him a birthday party. Will his father be happy to have the
money back? Will Cal
earn his father’s love?
*Runner Up!*
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| East of Eden movie poster (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and John Garfield
Philip Green is a writer who was brought in to write an
article on anti-Semitism in America.
While he isn’t crazy about the topic because he thinks it’s over done and
doesn’t know how to make it interesting, he agrees to write it anyways. Then he
comes up with the perfect approach: to tell everyone he is Jewish, therefore
having a first-hand experience to write about. It doesn’t take long for him to
see the difference in people when they find out he’s Jewish. Will he have the
patience to stick it out? What will people say when they find out he’s really
not Jewish?
*Winner this Month*
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| Having dinner despite their differences (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
I honestly had a hard time following what was really
happening in this movie because there were so fighting! Talk about family
drama! What I did understand and read from IMDB, “Big Daddy” Pollitt is very
upset with his favored son Brick who doesn’t have any children and even worse
is an alcoholic. Brick’s wife, Maggie, tries to coax her husband off the
bottle, but fails. Will things turn around for the couple? Will Brick and his
father make up?
Side note: This movie has some extreme family drama! Just be prepared.
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| Another family argument (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and George Segal
Talk about even more family drama! George and Martha are
married and have a very interesting relationship. 95% of the time they are
arguing and verbally abusive to the other. One night after spending the evening
at a party at Martha’s father’s, they invite another couple over for a few more
drinks. Martha’s father just happens to be the president of New Carthage
University, where George
is an associate History professor. Nick and Honey are the young couple that she
and George met at the party. Nick is a new Biology professor. What sort of
crazy things are George and Martha going to put this poor young couple through?
Side note: This movie also has some extreme family drama. Perhaps husband and wife should visit the divorce court?
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| This poor couple has to witness the worst kind of family drama (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Quote of the Week: "Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws."
Last Weeks Answer: Oprah Winfrey
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